Xbmc

[vEX] · 2008-11-18 16:46:59

Zeqadious wrote:

lol. I was just getting ready to update my own builds. You beat me to it I guess ...
Zeq

Heh, well, as I said, you can take it over if you want too. :-)

lang2 · 2008-11-19 21:18:04

Am I the only one that think this is almost useless on Linux right now? It take over the whole CPU! And with only 1/4 screen too. Video play back has loads of artifacts - using catalyst here. The orginal xbox is much less powerful and yet it handles pretty well. What's the deal?

ltpl4y3r · 2008-11-20 03:29:13

Actually, I'm using it with an X700, FGLRX, and at 1080p. It seems to pump out a pretty good picture for me, not to mention that it has a really nice interface.I'll say, it does have some rendering problems.

For instance, it will zoom into 1/4 of the screen. But, playing around with the interlace options seems to reset it to where it should be, then the rest of the movie works fine. It suits me fine... Now, if they would use mplayer instead for the backend, I would be in heaven.

I'm also wanting to try out Boxee, they have support for Hulu.com!

Zeqadious · 2008-11-20 14:10:50

@lang2.
Refer to the xbmc.org forums for troubleshooting. I've seen threads about your issue before.

Good Luck.

Zeq

luciferin · 2008-11-23 17:22:46

PKGBUILD for the MediaStream skin:

pkgname=xbmc-skin-mediastream
pkgver=0.99
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="XBMC Skin"
url="http://www.teamrazorfish.co.uk/mediastream.html"
arch=( 'i686' )
depends=( 'xbmc' )
groups=( 'xbmc-extras' )
source=( 'MediaStream v0.99.zip' )

build() {
        install -v -d -m755 ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/xbmc/skin
        cp -arv ${startdir}/src/MediaStream ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/xbmc/skin
}

http://www.teamrazorfish.co.uk/mediastream.html
You have to get the zip from their website though, unfortunately I couldn't find a direct download link.

Tigertailz · 2008-11-26 05:26:20

Ah it isn't working for me, tried the SVN version and I tried the 8.10 from AUR, both ends up with segfaults on boot. Is this for everyone or just for me ?

fukawi2 · 2008-11-26 05:56:09

Me too.

[vEX] · 2008-11-26 16:55:58

Check your xorg configs, I had the same problem on one machine and it turned out the display depth was set to 16 ("DefaultDepth 16"), you need at least 24.

Tigertailz · 2008-11-26 17:32:15

[vEX] wrote:

Check your xorg configs, I had the same problem on one machine and it turned out the display depth was set to 16 ("DefaultDepth 16"), you need at least 24.

That made the trick!

Thank you very much, it bothered me for a while

[vEX] · 2008-11-26 20:07:03

Tigertailz wrote:

[vEX] wrote:
Check your xorg configs, I had the same problem on one machine and it turned out the display depth was set to 16 ("DefaultDepth 16"), you need at least 24.
That made the trick!
Thank you very much, it bothered me for a while

Likewise, it was only with the final release that I put enough effort into tracking down the problem. Thankfully I found a post on the XBMC forums about mentioning that a 24-bit display depth is required.

I've bumped the pkgrel and added an install script that will display a notice about the issue on installation. Hopefully this should help others.

suolx · 2009-01-14 10:13:35

Anyone else getting this ?

gcc -fPIC -DHAS_snprintf_void -DNO_ERRNO_H -o example example.o -L. libz.a
/usr/bin/ld: errno: TLS definition in /lib/libc.so.6 section .tbss mismatches non-TLS reference in libz.a(gzio.o)
/lib/libc.so.6: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
distcc[15695] ERROR: compile (null) on localhost failed
make[2]: *** [example] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/xbmc/src/XBMC/XBMC-build/xbmc/lib/cximage-6.0/zlib'
make[1]: *** [zlib/libz.a] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/xbmc/src/XBMC/XBMC-build/xbmc/lib/cximage-6.0'
make: *** [imagelib] Error 2

Stefan Husmann · 2009-01-14 11:15:18

Did you try to delete the src directory and build again from scratch?

Fackamato · 2009-01-14 11:37:29

Is XBMC ready for use yet, on Linux?

CPU usage? Flawless playback, no hickups when switching between fullscreen video and "mini" video window (e.g. playing a video and then browsing the music collection).

Last time I tried it (2 months ago?) I had several segfaults on different videos...

Tigertailz · 2009-01-14 12:01:18

Fackamato wrote:

Is XBMC ready for use yet, on Linux?
CPU usage? Flawless playback, no hickups when switching between fullscreen video and "mini" video window (e.g. playing a video and then browsing the music collection).
Last time I tried it (2 months ago?) I had several segfaults on different videos...

Yes my friend, in fact it works very well.. I have just it a bunch of times with the tv scraping to impress my friends and there is usually no problems. May I suggest you try it for yourself and give as an opinion

fukawi2 · 2009-01-14 21:55:16

Fackamato wrote:

Is XBMC ready for use yet, on Linux?

Works for me.

Fackamato wrote:

CPU usage? Flawless playback, no hickups when switching between fullscreen video and "mini" video window (e.g. playing a video and then browsing the music collection).

All works fine. I have a dedicated XBMC HTPC in my living room. It plays movies and tv shows off the hard drive without issues, and streams music / photos etc over the network from my File server perfectly

suolx · 2009-01-19 08:31:04

Stefan Husmann wrote:

Did you try to delete the src directory and build again from scratch?

Yup...tried about everything...removing src, cleaning ccache etc...running x86_64 system. 16565 is the latest working build.

mots · 2009-01-25 15:36:20

I have a problem with xbmc on my archlinux... Built it using the xbmc-svn pkgbuild from AUR, and everything works fine, except playing MP3s... Whenever I try to play a mp3, xbmc simply crashes. Anyone else ever had that prob? Here's my debug log:http://omploader.org/vMTY4aA

[vEX] · 2009-01-25 16:04:30

I see you're trying to play the music from a Samba share, have you tried playing anything locally?

mots · 2009-01-25 16:28:52

Yeah, same prob :<
But strangely, it works using zeqadious' (unfortunately pretty outdated) pkg...
EDIT: Maybe somebody could upload a up-to-date SVN package?

Last edited by mots (2009-01-26 12:02:02)

gorus · 2009-01-27 22:54:51

id also like to know if theres a fix for that .. what ive done was i made dvdplayer my default music player in advancedsettings.xml .. so the problem is with paplayer or mp3 codecs; im also unable to get digital pasthrough with paplayer while playing dolby digital music files. My other suggestion is to use xbmc-svn rev 17396 paplayer plays everything as it supposed to in 17396 (for me at least) and passthrough works as well so im sticking with that one for now.

compiled xbmc-svn 17396.. same problem with paplayer

Last edited by gorus (2009-01-27 22:56:30)

TigTex · 2009-02-13 11:38:46

I'm using xbmc (official release) and I don't have any problem playing any file locally, from a media or from a samba share... Maybe svn isn't a good option for now.

Cornholio · 2009-02-28 13:07:33

hi,
I'm trying to compile xbmc-xvn, and at some point ram occupation raise till the system freezes...
Anyone has the same problem?

Fackamato · 2009-02-28 13:20:55

Cornholio wrote:

hi,
I'm trying to compile xbmc-xvn, and at some point ram occupation raise till the system freezes...
Anyone has the same problem?

What? RAM corruption raise till the system freezes? I don't understand..

Cornholio · 2009-02-28 13:37:13

used ram raises with a specific source; when ram becomes full, the system freezes.

haggy · 2009-03-06 13:03:27

I'm experiencing the same issue. Make runs until it compiles dvdread, then suddenly countless shells get spawned (watch top for this) and ram usage raises until even swap is fully used - then system freezes nearly.

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